KARACHI: Artefacts not being moved to Lahore, says minister
KARACHI, May 12: Federal Minister for Culture S.K. Tressler has categorically stated that the artefacts and the library of the department of archaeology will not be shifted from Karachi to Lahore.
This was announced by Federal Minister for Information Nisar A. Memon while talking to PPI on Sunday, when asked to comment on reports that the artefacts and library of the department of archaeology were being shifted to Lahore from Karachi.
Mr Memon said he had read the press reports and some friends had drawn his attention towards the situation and sought the federal government’s position on the reports.
The information minister said he had spoken to Culture Minister S.K. Tressler on phone in Islamabad on Sunday who categorically told him that no artefacts in Karachi were being shifted to Lahore or Islamabad. Mr Tressler had said they would remain in Karachi.
The information minister quoted the culture minister as saying that only the archaeology department director general was being moved from Karachi to Lahore and as such he would be taking files and necessary documents with him to his new office.
CS: Sindh chief secretary Javed Ashraf Hussain has said the artifacts, and the library of the Department of Archaeology are not being shifted from Karachi to Lahore as assured by federal secretary archeology and culture department, says a handout.
